Breathe

‘breathe, breathing’,

easy way to type it: hahl-hahl

Lolly Metcalf’s South Slough Milluk

Americanist Phonetic

IPA

[ ha·ɫha·ɫ ],

then

[ ha·ɫha·ɫ ]

[ hɑˑɬhɑˑɬ ],

then

[ hɑˑɬhɑˑɬ ]

The Use
of a Hyphen: Where it comes to our easy way to type this word, we have the
problem that our way of writing the Barred L [ ɫ ] in that writing system is to
write it as hl, so we use a hyphen to break the word apart, in order not to get
the letters hlh in the middle of the word.
A phonemic representation of the word can be / haɬ-haɬ / ‘breathe’ where
the hyphen is used to separate what is technically called a ‘reduplicant’,
which in this case is the single meaningful part of this word repeated in its
entirety.

Instant Phonetic Englishization: Almost like saying halth_halth.

An Odd
Phonetic Fact: The [ h ] in the middle of
this word would seem to be simultaneous with the Barred L [ ɫ ] also in the
middle of this word. We do not have a
handy way of writing that phonetically.

for AMP:

hahl ‘breath’

Annie Miner Peterson’s Milluk

Exactly Jacobs’ transcription

Americanist Phonetic & IPA

há·ɫ
‘breath’

[ ha·ɫ ] ‘breath’

&

[ hɑˑɬ ] ‘breath’

Breathe
and Breath: In this interview segment, Swadesh asks for a
translation of the English verb ‘breathe’.
In Jacobs’ slip-file dictionary, we see in Jacobs’ handwriting the
Milluk word | há·ɫ | translated as ‘breath’, a noun. So Mrs. Peterson said a Milluk word which is identical
to the syllable that gets repeated in the Milluk word meaning ‘breathe’ that we
hear from Mrs. Metcalf. The repetition
in the verb that Lolly says would seem to be the use of reduplication in Milluk
for repetitive actions, which is certainly applicable to normal breathing.